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September 24th, 2008 14:00
Problem with Drive letter assignment
Dell Dimension E520 delivered with Windows installed on C: and visible recovery partition on D:.
Needed to re-install Win Xp pro, but XP setup gave hard drives as C: = recovery partition, D: = System (Windows).
Question 1 Why does XP setup see the partitions as being the opposite to the previous Windows install ?
Colleague re-installed Win XP on D:.
Now Windows has C: = recovery partition, D: = System.
Disk management thinks both of these are boot partitions so won't let us change the drive letters.
Question 2 Is there any way to make what is currently D: become C: and C become D: ?
Question 3 Can the Recovery partition be hidden ?
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SlamX
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September 27th, 2008 17:00
Why did you install from XP CD rather than use the Dell recovery to resotre windows?
XP installed to D: because the recovery partition is not hidden and the XP install CD will see it as C:.
carina12
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September 29th, 2008 06:00
Recovery partition is Vista, which is why it's visible I believe.
XP recovery partitions are hidden by default.
Is there a way to make the recovery partition hidden ?
SlamX
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September 29th, 2008 14:00
Yes there is a way to hide it. You need to read Dan Goddell's info on this and use the ptedit utility.
It is easy to do but hard to explain here. You need to know abit of how to use dos comofortably.
Here is his site. You can try and sort through and find the info. The info is on this page but you have to pick out what fits what you want to do.
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/dellmbr.htm
carina12
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September 30th, 2008 06:00
Thanks very much. I'll have a look at that.
I used to work in DOS many, many years ago so I'll have to get my brain working.